SERVICE MUSIC
Trinity Sunday (June 3, 2012)
Opening Hymn: “Holy, Holy, Holy” (#266)
Sequence Hymn: “Te Deum laudamus” (#613/617)
Sermon Hymn: “O Thou who camest from above” (#463)
Communion Hymns: “Wherefore, O Father” (#205)
“My God, accept my heart this day” (#404)
Closing Hymn: “The God of Abraham praise” (#285, leoni)
Anthem: “Hymn to the Trinity”
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Text: “Cherubic Hymn” from the Great Entrance in the Orthodox liturgy
Communion Motet: “Ave verum corpus”
Music: Peter Philips (1583-1625)
Text: Fourteenth-century eucharistic hymn
Translation: “Hail the true body, born of the Virgin Mary: You who truly suffered and were sacrificed on the cross for the sake of man. From whose pierced side flowed water and blood: Be a foretaste for us in the trial of death. O sweet, O gentle, O Jesu, son of Mary, have mercy on me.”
Choral Amen: “Twofold Amen” by William Gibbons (1583-1625)